01:10Ukraine: Nationalist torches take the streets of Kiev
Ukraine: Nationalist torches take the streets of Kiev
The flames of 10,000 torches lit up the city of Kiev on January 1 to commemorate Ukrainian nationalist leader Stepan Bandera's 105th birthday anniversary. Demonstrators marched along the major streets of the capital after departing from Mikhailovskaya Street.
The leaders of right-wing All-Ukrainian Union "Svoboda" Oleg Tyagnibok and Andrey Mokhnik took part in the march. Vitaly Klitchko's opposition party UDAR kept its distance, arguing that the march is not supported by All-Ukrainian Maidan movement and it is only Svoboda's initiative. Protesters shouted slogans such as 'Bandera is our hero! Bandera, come and establish order!'.
In 2013, the torch-lit march devoted to Bandera's anniversary gathered a notably smaller number of activists with only 3,000 coming to join the rows of marchers.
01:10Ukraine: Nationalist torches take the streets of Kiev
The flames of 10,000 torches lit up the city of Kiev on January 1 to commemorate Ukrainian nationalist leader Stepan Bandera's 105th birthday anniversary. Demonstrators marched along the major streets of the capital after departing from Mikhailovskaya Street.
The leaders of right-wing All-Ukrainian Union "Svoboda" Oleg Tyagnibok and Andrey Mokhnik took part in the march. Vitaly Klitchko's opposition party UDAR kept its distance, arguing that the march is not supported by All-Ukrainian Maidan movement and it is only Svoboda's initiative. Protesters shouted slogans such as 'Bandera is our hero! Bandera, come and establish order!'.
In 2013, the torch-lit march devoted to Bandera's anniversary gathered a notably smaller number of activists with only 3,000 coming to join the rows of marchers.